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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Within the seminar, students will first be introduced to the newly developed digital tool Digeocat & Lib., a web application (digeocat.mzk.cz) that connects a digital atlasconsisting of routes created by mapping narrated journeyswith a library of travelogues of Czech provenance from the Mediterranean region, written between the 15th century and 1918. The application uses modern digital tools to make old and often completely forgotten travel texts accessible. Its primary purpose is to utilize travelogues in an innovative way to study the representations of intercultural contacts that occurred between Czech travelers and the Mediterranean environment during the observed period. However, the seminar students will not be mere users of the application; they will become co-creators of its content. They will be guided through all phases of travelogue preparation and processing: heuristic research (finding a travelogue narrating an actual journey in 19th-century periodicals), creating a travel route through the digital mapping of locations mentioned in the travelogue either by toponym or description and connecting them (with regard to the mode of transportation), and text tagging. The maps and texts will be linked via a thematic matrix. Marked locations on the map will be tagged to those excerpts in the texts that testify to the respective themes. The processing will take place within an application designed for data processing. The primary subject of interest will be the travel texts themselves, rather than travel as such.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Demonstration
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the seminar is both to demonstrate to students the possibilities of contemporary research work (utilizing the potential of digital technologies) in the field of literary cultureand to involve them directly in itand to expand their horizons in the fields of history, literary culture, and cultural geography in this specific way.
Through inquiry-based learning, students learn to utilize digital tools in humanities education and expand their competencies in the fields of history, literary culture, and cultural geography.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of the history, culture, and geography of Europe. No special knowledge of digital technologies is required.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
1) active participation in the seminar (a maximum of 2 absences is permitted) 2) reading of selected travelogues 3) assigned seminar task in the application (digital mapping and text tagging)
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Recommended literature
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Bláhová, Kateřina - Petrbok, Václav (2008). Cizí, jiné, exotické v české kultuře 19. století. Praha.
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Borovička, Michael (2010). Cestovatelství. Velké dějiny zemí Koruny české.. Litomyšl.
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Culler, J. (1988). Semiotics of Tourism. In Framing The Sign. Criticism and Its Institutions. (153?167). Basil Blackwell.
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Doumerc, Bernard (2017). Benátky a jejich impérium ve Středomoří 9.-15. století. Praha.
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Faktorová, Veronika (2012). Mezi poznáním a imaginací. Podoby obrozenského cestopisu. Praha.
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Greenblatt, Stephen (2004). Podivuhodná vlastnictví. Zázraky Nového světa.. Praha.
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Heller, Jan M. (2020). Obraz druhého v českém cestopise 19. století. Praha.
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Hlavačka, Milan (1996). Cestování v éře dostavníku. Praha.
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Hrabal, Jiří (ed.) (2015). Fenomén cestopisu v literatuře a umění střední Evropy.
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